Chongzhen instructed Wang Chengen to hand over a piece of ice towel, and the towel soaked in ice water and wrung out was applied to his face, which suddenly made his somewhat drowsy mind wake up suddenly.

After dropping the towel, Zhu Youzhen, who had recovered his spirits, looked at Lu Qi and said, "Let's talk about Dongjiang Town first, and read those secret letters to me." ”

Lu Qi answered, then looked down at the secret documents in his hand and read them one by one, after Zhu Youzhen listened, he thought for a while before asking: "Where did the information about the Dongjiang Town Mission and Education Department and Wang Huazhen come from?" ”

Lu Qi looked through the secret documents in his hand, and then replied: "The Propaganda and Education Department here is a report from He Lintu, the head of the water camp in Dongjiang Town, and Shen Shikui, the deputy chief soldier, and Governor Wang's side is a report from the businessman Hong Xiu. ”

Seeing that Chongzhen was silent for a long time, Wang Chengen couldn't help but interject a little impetuously: "Your Majesty, now the Internal Affairs Office, the Four Seas Trading Firm, and the maritime trade routes in the north all have to pass through the places under the control of Dongjiang Town.

Mr. Seo's mineral deposits in the northern part of North Korea also need the support of Donggang Town to develop. This Dongjiang Town is related to His Majesty's money bag, and it really can't be lost, Your Majesty. ”

Zhu Youzhen looked up at him, and couldn't help asking, "Then what does Wang Banban think, what should I do?" ”

Wang Chengen realized that he seemed to be a little anxious at this time, and he quickly bowed his head and accused: "The minister is just in a hurry, and he has no intention of asking His Majesty to act. ”

Zhu Youzhen retracted his gaze, and turned to Lu Qi and instructed: "It's just that the Houjin faction wants to talk to Mao Shuai about business, how did Mao Shuai respond, they all reported unclearly, what kind of evidence is this?" Let's wait and see what Mao Shuai himself says.

Replied to Wang Huazhen, Mao Shuai's matter was handled by myself, and asked him not to question Mao Shuai indiscriminately, he only needed to manage the internal affairs of Dongjiang Town and monitor the domestic situation of the Korean Kingdom, even if he had fulfilled his duty.

I ordered the Dongjiang Town Mission and Education Department to give credit to He Lintu and Shen Shikui once, so that they can continue to maintain this loyalty to the imperial court, and I will not forget their merits. In addition, the Propaganda and Education Department should continue to go deep into the grassroots level of the army and strengthen the ideological education of the officers and men of all departments in Dongjiang Town, so that they will always remember that they are the army of the Ming Dynasty.

Also, tell the General Staff and ask them to order and supervise the work of separating the military and the people in Donggang Town, and speed up the evacuation of military and family members to the rear far from the front line and islands, such as Jeju Island and Tianjin, Shandong and other places..."

Chongzhen commanded several countermeasures in one breath, and Lu Qi quickly recorded them in the manual with a pen. After a while, he saw Chongzhen stop and meditate, as if he hadn't remembered something for a while. Lu Qi lowered his head and looked at his record, thought for a while, and then gently reminded the emperor: "Mao Shuai's eldest son, Mao Chengzuo, entered the Naval Officer Academy last year. ”

Chongzhen glanced up at Lu Qi, and after seeing him finish saying this, he fell silent again, and his face did not show any smug color, Zhu Youzhen retracted his gaze and said: "Arrange a time this week, I will go to the Naval Military Academy to inspect, and let the school select three student representatives to accompany me." Now, let's talk about what happened in Shenyang? Why did Aelli flee? What happened to his father Amin? ”

Lu Qi closed the folder in his hand and replied quickly and concisely to Chongzhen: "The contact between the Social Investigation Department and Shenyang has been interrupted for almost 12 days, and it is said that Houjin has blocked Shenyang City, and except for the messengers in the army, other idle people are not allowed to enter or leave. So we don't know now what's going on in Shenyang these days.

Because of the suddenness of Aelli's escape, the return to Tianjin by boat from Yingkou was faster than that of Jinzhou by land. Therefore, we have not received a report from Jinzhou. Now our only source of information is from Allie and his entourage. It is expected that they will arrive in Beijing at noon tomorrow. ”

Zhu Youzhen frowned, then returned to normal and said, "Inform Xia Du Du and ask him to go to greet Xia Erli tomorrow for me." Also, tomorrow night at Diaoyutai to give a feast of love gifts,..."

Hagi Castle, where the Nagato Domain was located under the Choshu Domain, a powerful feudal domain in southwestern Japan, was a fairly young castle. The castle is also known as Shigetsu Castle because it encloses the entire castle and climbs up the mountain with towering castle towers, and finally the castle tower that stands on the top of the mountain is firmly defended.

The river, which used to run around the mountain for hundreds of paces, has been artificially repaired and turned into a moat that is thousands of steps wide, dividing Shigetsuyama Castle and the castle town into two separate parts. The only passage connecting Shigetsuyama Castle and the castle town is a magnificent five-span stone arch bridge.

Ye Yuxuan was dressed as a merchant of the Ming Kingdom, with a cart of silk and satin cloth and three or five men stopped at the bridgehead, he pushed the hat used for shade on his head with his hand, admiring the magnificent castle hidden in the green on the other side of the river, and couldn't help but praise in his heart.

Unlike the castle town on the side of the river, which is crooked and cramped with small buildings, the castle on the opposite side is like a miracle that has emerged from this land. It's hard to believe that the buildings on both sides were built by the people of the same country.

When Ye Yuxuan was enjoying the beautiful scenery of Zhiyue Mountain City, the Japanese interpreter Murata Kazusada, who stepped forward to negotiate with the soldiers guarding the bridge, ran back to him quickly, bowed his head to him and saluted: "My lord, we can go in, Lord Fukuhara Hirotoshi is already waiting on the other side." ”

Although Ye Yuxuan's face still maintained a relaxed demeanor, he reprimanded him in a low and stern voice: "I repeat, after I landed on the land of Japan, I was just a silk merchant from the Ming Kingdom, not an adult. Remember? ”

"Yes, big... Landlord. Kazusada Murata quickly changed his tune and retreated out of the way. Ye Yuxuan glanced at him, and then stepped onto the bridge with a satin car.

After crossing the bridge, Ye Yuxuan saw a young samurai wearing a black kimono, a pair of swords at his waist, and a pair of clogs on his feet sitting on a maza in front of the bridgehead hut. The scorching sun was mostly blocked by the wooden hut that the guards were using on duty, and only a small part of it shone on the samurai's legs.

This made Ye Yuxuan unable to distinguish the appearance of the warrior hidden in the shadows for a while, and when he slowed down to look at the seated warrior, the other party obviously also saw Ye Yuxuan's arrival, which made him jump up quickly, and the excessive tension made the * he wore on his waist pick up the Mazha behind him.

The sound of Ma Za falling to the ground obviously made the warrior a little flustered, but after a while, he calmed down, took a step forward, stood in the sunlight and nodded at Ye Yuxuan and said, "The ladies are waiting in the Mingyue Pavilion to pick up the silk style you brought, please follow me." ”

Seeing that the other party is not even bigger than his chest, and his face is still childish, it is clear that he is only a half-size. Ye Yuxuan couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, and he couldn't help but feel a little uncomfortable in his heart. Talking about such an important secret matter, the other party actually allowed a young man who had not dried up to participate, which made him a little suspicious of how sincere the meeting between the other party and himself was.

But then he thought about it, he had come here, and he had to talk about it first. After all, Nagato Country is the closest populated place to the Whale Sea, and this place has a population and natural resources, which is enough to reprocess the catch caught by Daming fishermen, and then transfer it back to China, or sell it on the spot.

The establishment of a fishery processing base here can at least increase the fishing efficiency by several times, especially the whaling industry can obtain the maximum profit. Now if a whale of 8-10 tons is caught, if the whole whale can be fully utilized, the fishermen on board can earn the equivalent of half a year's income from farming on shore.

Fishing companies and shipowners are more profitable than fishermen. It is precisely because the profits of the whaling industry are so attractive that Chongzhen's capital and personnel involved in the whaling industry began to grow sharply in three years, and any measures that can improve the efficiency of whaling will be absorbed by this group of people.

The large whaling fleet led by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the nobles wanted to open a secondary processing base near the whaling site to obtain the maximum economic benefits, so Ye Yuxuan, an official of the East China Sea Patrol Office, had to appear here and have a secret meeting with Mori Shu, the current head of the Choshu Domain.

"Please." Ye Yuxuan, who had figured it out in an instant, immediately abandoned some distracting thoughts in his mind, bent down to salute the young warrior and agreed, and invited him to lead the way in front.

The so-called Meigetsukan is actually a Japanese-style wooden house building similar to the style of the district character, and there are three separate buildings in the Meigetsukan, which are connected by wooden corridors. The small patio between the wooden corridor and the wooden corridor is planted with maple trees, and the floor of the patio is also paved with a layer of white gravel and some irregular black stones.

When Ye Yuxuan saw it for the first time, he thought it was good, and it was quite a small thing. But after looking at it for a long time, he felt that the courtyard arranged in this way was too lonely, and it was really a little inappropriate to place it in the castle of a great name, so that this castle lived as if it was a Buddhist disciple.

Although Ye Yuxuan had some cranky thoughts in his mind, he didn't stop at all, and followed closely behind the young warrior. After arriving at the Bright Moon Pavilion, the samurai dragged him into the pavilion alone, leaving everyone else at the entrance. Ye Yuxuan also roughly knew that the lord of the Changzhou Domain who wanted to meet him should be in a room somewhere in the museum.

After seven or eight turns, the young warrior who led the way for Ye Yuxuan suddenly stopped in front of a longhouse, he turned around and knelt on the wooden corridor in front of the longhouse, then opened the door of the longhouse, and then made a gesture to invite Ye Yuxuan in.

Ye Yuxuan entered the room, and after passing through the somewhat dark entrance, he found that his eyes suddenly lit up. Sunlight shines through the northeast window, making the tatami mats on the ground appear to glow, and when you look out of the window, you can see the beautiful castle tower and the sky in the distance.

Although the scenery outside the window was good, Ye Yuxuan had some doubts in his heart, because there was no one in this room at all. He was thinking about what was going on at the moment when he heard the sound of the door on his right hand rubbing against the track.

Turning his head to look, he saw a man in his 40s walking out of the next room and greeting him in stiff Chinese: "Mr. Ye, please come here, the head of the family is already waiting for you in the next room." ”